Word: pettishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rumania one may refer to Prince Nicholas, weak-chinned younger son of Dowager Queen Marie, as a? "bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend," but it will cost one just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...
Whoever seeks colorful incidents in his daily papers should feel grateful to Abd-el-Krim and his little playmates for giving him something to stimulate his imagination almost every day. Such a person must have been highly pleased yesterday morning to read that Abd-el-Krim, feeling a bit pettish, had blown one of his prominent ministers from the mouth of a cannon. Sometimes one regrets that such things do not happen more often in European politics...